Proverbs 14:30
A quiet mind is the life of the body, but envy is a disease in the bones.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
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Cross References
1 Kings 21:6And he said to her, Because I was talking to Naboth the Jezreelite, and I said to him, Let me have your vine-garden for a price, or, if it is pleasing to you, I will give you another vine-garden for it: and he said, I will not give you my vine-garden.
Psalms 112:10The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.
Proverbs 3:8This will give strength to your flesh, and new life to your bones.
Proverbs 12:4A woman of virtue is a crown to her husband; but she whose behaviour is a cause of shame is like a wasting disease in his bones.
Acts 7:9And the brothers, moved with envy against Joseph, gave him to the Egyptians for money: but God was with him,
2 Timothy 1:7For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of self-control.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:30
29 He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly. Note, 1. Meekness is wisdom. He rightly understands himself, and his duty and interest, the infirmities of human nature, and the constitution of human society, who is slow to anger, and knows how to excuse the faults of others as well as his own, how to adjourn his resentments, and moderate them, so as by no provocation to be put out of the possession of his own soul. A mild patient man is really to be accounted… Read the whole commentary →